01:202:201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Presentence Investigation Report, Capital Punishment By Country, Mandatory Sentencing
14 Apr 2019
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Sentencing is done by the courts, judicial authority (the judge), not corrections. Presentence investigation (psi) - the examination of a convicted offender"s background prior to sentencing. The presentence investigation report can take one of three forms: a detailed written report on the defendant"s personal and criminal history, an abbreviated written report summarizing the information, a verbal report to the court. The judge has four sentencing options: prison, death, fines, and community corrections. Retribution: the act of taking revenge on a criminal perpetrator, the earliest-known rationale for punishment, corresponds to the model of sentencing called just deserts (you got what you deserved) Incapacitation: the use of imprisonment or other means to reduce the likelihood that an offender will commit future offenses, seeks to protect innocent members of society. Specific deterrence - a goal of criminal sentencing that seeks to prevent a particular offender from engaging in repeat criminality: aims to reduce the likelihood of recidivism.
